Krankenwagen Leipzig

Krankenwagen Leipzig was a German Wehrmacht ambulance that saw action during World War II. The ambulance, an Opel Blitz truck, was attached to a mechanized division of the German 8th Army, and it took part in the Invasion of Poland in 1939. During the Battle of the Bzura, the ambulance was operated by Vinzenz Baumann and Dieter Bader, and it was sent to rescue stranded tank crewmen after their tanks were destroyed during the assault on the Polish-held high ground. The two men drove their ambulance to the battlefield, making two trips and saving eight soldiers from the combat zone. These soldiers were tank commanders Otto Meltzer and Otto Hermann, crewmen Herbert Koch, Emmerich Gold, Luither Hellmann, and Daniel Borg, soldier Hugbert Unruh, and pilot Jurgen Kuster. The two ambulance drivers were awarded with the Iron Cross for their bravery.